Ryan McBride/Staff photographer A vehicle rests upside down in a marsh after it rolled over on Wild Goose Pond Road in Strafford Friday night.

STRAFFORD — A local woman escaped serious injury Friday night, when the vehicle she was driving rolled over into a swamp amid icy conditions.

At approximately 6 p.m. Friday, a Strafford woman in her early 40s was driving north on Wild Goose Pond Road, when her vehicle began skidding, said Police Officer Randy Young.

After the skid, the driver tried correcting the direction of travel, and ended up in the opposite lane. She then tried to recorrect her vehicle again, at which point she struck a speed limit sign and her vehicle rolled over onto its roof on the edge of a nearby marsh, said Young.

He said the woman was trapped in the vehicle for some time, while she was on the phone with 911. Shorty after the accident, a passerby stopped and helped the woman exit the vehicle. A rear window in her vehicle had reportedly been blown out, and the woman, while the vehicle was on its roof, climbed to the back of the vehicle and crawled out of the rear window after unbuckling her seat belt.

The driver reported a shoulder injury in the accident, but refused transport to the hospital, said Young.

He said the woman had been driving home from work, and she was less than three minutes away from home when the accident occurred.

Road conditions were thought to be the cause of the accident Friday night.

“Her safety belt saved her,” said Young, who said the driver would likely have been ejected from the vehicle it she hadn't been wearing her seat belt.

Young said it was also fortunate that the vehicle did not roll over in a deeper portion of the marsh.

“As bad as this is, it turned out to be very lucky for her,” he said.

The vehicle, which Young said was most likely destroyed in the accident, was towed from the scene by Knight's Garage.

Wild Goose Pond Road was closed for some time as the scene of the accident was being cleared.

Strafford Police, Fire, and EMS departments responded to the accident.

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Ryan McBride/Staff photographer A vehicle rests upside down in a marsh after it rolled over on Wild Goose Pond Road in Strafford Friday night.

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Ryan McBride/Staff photographer A vehicle rests upside down in a marsh after it rolled over on Wild Goose Pond Road in Strafford Friday night.